{"product_id":"american-encounters-isbn-9780807002377","title":"American Encounters","description":"The idea of crossing the border between the United States and what award-winning anthropologist José Limón calls \"Greater Mexico\" has always conjured images of racial hostility and exclusion. Through literature, film, song, and dance, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e explores an alternative history of attraction and desire between the U.S. and Greater Mexico, offering a vision of hope for the future.[Limón] has proven that Chicano critics are the new players in the field of cultural studies.--Rafael Castillo, \u003ci\u003eSan Antonio Express-News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] powerful and graceful book, as alive to the seductions as it is to the dangers of inevitable encounters.\"--Doris Sommer, author of \u003ci\u003eProceed With Caution, When Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"José Limón's \u003ci\u003eAmerican Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e is the beginning of a critical hope fulfilled. Cultural critics can move over and make room, listen up and encounter a Chicano critic who not only speaks about social and symbolic borderlands but who speaks from within the borderlands of race, nation, class, and the Chicano\/Mexican\/Gringo imagination. Limón writes a new map of cultural relationships-southern culture and Greater Mexico, Katherine Anne Porter and Selena, Manuel Gamio and Gary Cooper, Sandra Cisneros and the other Cisneros-and shapes it with a new sensibility of erotic perversions and creativities.\"--David Carrasco, author of \u003ci\u003eCity of Sacrifice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Limón's] approach is not only nondogmatic but deliciously eclectic, building bridges between popular culture and the highbrow, between literature, politics, and the social sciences.\"--Ilan StavansJosé E. Limón, author of \u003ci\u003eDancing with the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas\u003c\/i\u003e, is professor of English and anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302588043493,"sku":"NP9780807002377","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807002377.jpg?v=1767721413","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/american-encounters-isbn-9780807002377","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}